About Conservatives for Britain

Conservatives for Britain is a group of Conservative Party members who:

Consider the UK’s present relationship with the EU to be untenable,

Take an optimistic, globalist view of the UK’s future,

Support the Party’s policy of renegotiation and referendum based on the Wharton Bill franchise and question,

Wish to explore what objectives the negotiations must achieve to ensure that they meet the PM’s objective, “to reform the EU and fundamentally change Britain’s relationship with it” (PM, Hansard, Col 1122, 23 March 2015), and

Will discuss how to prepare for a possible “out” campaign, to be activated if it is apparent that negotiations will not achieve the objectives.

Conservatives for Britain has been formed among Tory parliamentarians to discuss the criteria by which to judge the Government’s EU renegotiation. We are willing to consider how to prepare for an “out” campaign if, lamentably, the European Union establishment will not allow the UK a new relationship of trade and co-operation.

David Cameron has been spectacularly successful in Europe. No other Prime Minister has secured a cut in the European Union budget.

David Cameron kept us out of a centralising EU fiscal treaty and took our country out of the Eurozone bailouts, arguably the first ever return of powers from Brussels.

Conservatives have confidence in the Government¹s capacity to renegotiate our membership of the European Union before the British people take the decision to remain or leave.

As Mr Cameron said in his Bloomberg speech, “We have the character of an Island nation – independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty.”

That is the fundamental issue. We are an outward-looking, free trading nation which feels acutely the lack of democratic consent for European supranational government.

Comments & Responses

10 Responses so far.

You have to prepare the ground by specifying the minimum definition of success, or a range of outcomes, from too little to far too much dismantling of the status quo. If there’s no scale already out there in the public debate with which to compare, ie if you only start the campaign post-renegotiation, that’ll be too late.

I voted for you and I support many Conservative policies. I believe it is right for David Cameron to get the best deal possible for UK in Europe. The advantages of UK in Europe are more important than trying to get an impossible set of demands.

You have the chance to make the Labour party irrelevant. Concentrate on this. Don’t cause David Cameron problems.

Why does no one mention the European Economic Area. Time to tell the voters about UK membership of the European Economic Area. It includes EU members plus others.The European Economic Area (EEA) is a single market that provides for the free movement of persons, goods, services and capital.

The EEA members are able to participate in the EU’s single internal market without being EU members, adopting almost all the relevant EU legislation other than laws regarding agriculture and fisheries. The EEA’s decision-shaping processes enable them to influence and contribute to new EEA policy and legislation from an early stage..

I am almost certain to vote to leave the EU as I do not believe Cameron will achieve meaningful change. As a lifelong Conservative I am dismayed at The conditions Cameron is dictating for the referendum which are contrary to fairness and democracy. How can I support your group in a small attempt to redress this balance?
Best regards
Peter

UKIP MEP’s willing to sack themselves via Brit-Exit have far more honour then some MP’s who want out but scared to say it. It is not about renegotiation it is about our country being run by us not the unelected bureaucrats of Brussels.